Hi all,
I'm not big into Armour, don't know my tanks well so would like some advise and what you think to this idea.
Firstly, I would like an R/C Tiger tank, on a budget, I know this does not bode well, but hear me out....
The R/C is not to go blasting everywhere but more as a novelty (it will sit in my display case most of the time), the Tiger has to look like a Tiger (so long as it looks OK, it does not have to be rivit correct), It HAS to be a Tiger, early or mid. King etc is no good, it's an Tiger early or mid or nothing. But most importantly I do not have an endless budget, less than £200 is my total budget.
Soooo, my thoughts....
Purchase a Heng Long Pro Tiger 1 (with the metal tracks), more for sturdiness, then purchase a Taigen Tiger 1 upper hull.
Add or rework any areas that I can, add a few scratch built bits
Re-Spray the whole thing.
Total purchase price will be in the order of...
£109 for the Tiger
£59.49 for the upper works.
What are your thoughts? Can I make a decent looking Tiger out of this? As I say it is novelty factor for the R/c so it's not the biggest part of the project so the fact it is not scale speed etc is no matter, not that the gears clank etc etc.